Tribute to women in the military

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  1. LenaSrb

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    Poetesse Ljiljana Zikic-Karadjordjevic (Љиљана Жикић Карађорђевић),

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    Serbian volunteer in Yugoslav Army-Kosovo war, KIA on April 1st 1999. near Pec, Serbian Southern Provnice of Kosovo and Metohija.
     
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    Milunka Savic (1888–1973) was a Serbian woman war heroine from the First World War, recognized as the most-decorated female combatant in the entire history of warfare. She was wounded no fewer than nine times during her term-of-service.

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    She was born in a village known as Koprivnica near Raška, Serbia in 1888. In 1913, her brother received call-up papers for mobilization this, in the war between Serbia and Bulgaria. She elected to go in his place - cutting her hair and donning men’s clothes and joining the Serb Army. She quickly saw action and received her first medal and was promoted to Corporal in the battle of Bregalnica. Engaged in battle, she sustained wounds and it was only then, when recovering from her injuries in hospital, that her true gender was revealed - much to the surprise of the attending physicians.

    In 1914, during the height of World War I, she was awarded her first Karađorđe Star with Swords after the Battle of Kolubara. She received her second Karađorđe Star (with Swords) after the Battle of Crna Reka in 1916 when she captured 23 Bulgarian soldiers single-handedly.

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    She was awarded the French Légion d’Honneur (Legion of Honour) twice, Russian Cross of St. George, British medal of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael, Serbian Miloš Obilić medal.
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    She is the sole female recipient of the French Croix de Guerre1914-1918 (War Cross) with the palm attribute for service in World War I.

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    The army :date:
     
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    Служимо Србији!​

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    For the first time, in the history of military education, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia offers possibility to girls to apply and enroll for the Military Academy.

    The curriculum is the same both for female and male students.

    After the graduation from the Military Academy, they acquire a higher education and become a graduate officer of the Military of Serbia by profession and they obtain a degree of a corresponding faculty with which the Military Academy has a shared program of studies.

    At the end of the studies, students have a possibility to obtain the certificate, deserved with their work and devotion, of foreign language – STANAG and the certificate of computer skills – ECDL.

    http://www.va.mod.gov.rs/cms/view.php?id=7023
     
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    Women take to the sky with Serbia's Army​


    First-class Sergeant Sandra Radovanovic, 22, is the first woman to fly the Serbian Army's Super Galeb G4. While many of her peers are just learning to drive cars, Radovanovic is manouvering a fighter plane at the speed of 700km/h, at an altitude of 4,000m.

    Radovanovic made history as the first female pilot in Serbia. She is in her final year as a cadet at Military Aviation, the military academy in Belgrade.
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    Besides Radovanovic, there are two other women combat pilots in the Serbian Army.

    Ana Tadic, 22, also flies the Super Galeb G4, and Anja Krneta flies the combat helicopter Gazela. The three women were admitted to the Military Aviation in 2007, when the academy opened its doors to women.
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    Anja Krneta, first female combat helicopter pilot in the Serbian Air Force
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    Senior sergeant Natasa Jovanovic

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    She is a perfect marksman, and she never misses the bull’s eye whether she is shooting from a gun or a small-caliber pistol. Arms fit her like a second skin and it her greatest passion. Natasa Jovanovic has worked with the Army for more than 10 years now and wins all the marksmanship championships. Today, this lady, a Sergeant, works with the Guard and was the first woman in “Kobre” special unit.
    The Military Police Special Operation Battalion "Cobras" is a military police unit of the Serbian military, responsible for counter-terrorism, close protection and special operations.
    Natasa is addressed as Mr. Lieutenant, and she is even addressed so over the phone even though a woman’s voice is heard. This is just a rule of service which does not have a rule of special form of addressing a lady with a rank. Currently, there are several women officers. Natasa passed all exercises and completed all tasks on par with her male colleagues.
     
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    Marina Raskova (March 28, 1912 – January 4, 1943) ,a famous Soviet navigator.

    She was the first woman to become a navigator in the Soviet Air Force in 1933. A year later, she started teaching at the Zhukovskii Air Academy, also a first for a woman. As significantly in the eyes of the Soviet Union, which gave its aviators celebrity status, she set a number of long distance records. Most of these record flights occurred in 1937 and 1938, while she was still teaching at the air academy.

    The most famous of these records was the flight of the Rodina (Russian for "Motherland"), Ant-37 - a converted DB-2 long range bomber, on September 24–25, 1938. She was the navigator of the crew that also included Polina Osipenko and Valentina Grizodubova. From the start, the goal was to set an international women's record for a straight-line distance flight. The plan was to fly from Moscow to Komsomolsk (in the Far East). When finally completed, the flight took 26 hours and 29 minutes, over a straight line distance of 5,947 km (total distance of 6,450 km).

    However, the ordeal took 10 days when the plane was unable to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no entrance to the rest of the plane and was vulnerable in a crash landing, Raskova parachuted out before they touched down. She had forgotten her emergency kit and was unable to find the plane for 10 days, with no water and almost no food. The rescue crew had found the aircraft 8 days after the landing, and was waiting when she found her way to it, after which all three women were taken to safety. On November 2, 1938, all three women were decorated with "The Hero of the Soviet Union" award, the first females ever to receive it and the only ones before World War II.

    When World War II broke out, there were numerous women who had training as pilots and many immediately volunteered. While there were no formal restrictions on women serving in combat roles, their applications tended to be blocked, run into red tape, etc. for as long as possible in order to discourage the applicants. Raskova is credited with using her personal connections with Stalin to convince the military to form three combat regiments of women.

    Raskova was the commander of the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation regiment. She died on January 4, 1943, when her aircraft crashed attempting to make a forced landing on the Volga bank, while leading two other Pe-2s to first operative airfield near Stalingrad.
     
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    Uncle Ferd likes womens inna uniform.
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    Svetlana Savitskaya ( born August 8 , 1948 ) is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space after Valentina Tereshkova. She served two duty tours on the Salyut 7 space station, and on her second one became the first woman to perform a space walk on July 25, 1984. She was outside the space station for 3 hours 35 minutes. Of the 57 Soviet/Russian spacewalker through 2010, she is the only female. Upon returning to Earth, Savitskaya was assigned as the commander of an all-female Soyuz crew to Salyut 7 in commemoration of the International Women's Day, a mission that was later canceled.

    Now Svetlana is a member of the State Duma representing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
     
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    Marina Popovich (born July 20, 1931)
    Marina Popovich started flying in 1948. In 1951, she graduated from the Novosibirsk Aviation College, then worked as a design engineer at the factory (1951-1953). At the end of the flight of the Central Technical School DOSAAF in Saransk (later - the Moscow branch of the Kiev Institute of Aviation), she worked briefly as an instructor there from 1958 became an instructor pilot in the Central Aeroclub them. Chkalov. To be eligible to operate a fighter, she has made for admission to military service, and later graduated from the Leningrad Civil Aviation Academy.
    Since 1960, Marina Popovich became the master piloting technique on jet aircraft, and soon became the became the only country in the military test-pilots of the 1st class. In 1962 she was invited as a candidate for the astronauts and passed a medical examination in the second group of astronauts, but the squad has not been taken.
    n 1964, M. Popovic became a test pilot, commander of the ship An-12 in GNIKI Air Force. It was she who first female test pilots broke the sound barrier in a jet fighter, the MiG-21 (for which he received the nickname "Madame MiG). Over the next few years it has established 102 world records, in particular, on the plane, "PB." The first of these, the rate was tanovlen mustache in Brno in the Czech L-29, after which (as noted by the Itar-Tass), "records became routine work of pilots."
    In the summer of 1965 on an airplane, "PB" with two turbojet engines established a world speed record for flying aircraft in this class, having closed dvuhtysyachekilometrovy route with an average speed of 737.28 km / h. September 20, 1967 Popovic broke the world record for an American Jacqueline Cochran, flying a plane, "PB" on the route Moscow-Volgograd-Astrakhan-Volgograd 2510 km and surpassing the record at 344 km.
    13 of its records are registered in the International Aviation Association (IFA). Ten world records have won it as a commander of the airship giant "Antaeus" (AN 22). The last record flight crew, led by Popovich, covered a distance of 1000 km at a speed exceeding 600 km / h, with a cargo of 50 tons.
    In the years 1979-1984 M. Popovich worked as a leading test pilot in the Antonov Design Bureau in Kiev. Later - served as president of the association of flight "Milestones" in Tushino, led the airline to "Converse Air" at the Ministry of Aviation Industry, has worked at the center of AE Akimov, torsion fields engaged in the study .
    Marina Popovich flew 5600 hours, has mastered more than 40 types of aircraft and helicopters, experienced aeronautical engineering at the Air Force Institute of Civil them. Chkalov and Antonov Design Bureau, including the five types of aircraft as the lead test pilot.
     
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    Svetlana Protasova - one the few women pilots in the Russian Air Force who fly on supersonic jet fighter. The lieutenant Protasova graduated Moscow Aviation Institute and Zaporizhzhya DOSAAF aviation school. Before her first flight in the MiG-29, Svetlana flew more than 400 hours on sports Yak-52, -55, Su-26 jet as well as training L-29 and A-39.
     
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    These girls are quite the babes, and I would VERY love to play some walleyball with them.

    But, unfortunately, I would still cut their throats because of the ultranationalist and separatist state formations that they support with their guns.
     
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    Silly Billy, you would have been by (*)(*)(*)(*) off , when one of these women go to you.
    You'd better play your Warcraft
     
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    another wet dream of yours ?
     
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    Another male fantasy: the French Maid:aww:

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    Edit: Oops, off-topic, I forgot the forum's segregation between Eastern and Western Europe. My apologies:)
     
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    Newsletter 6/2010 - Our South East Europe

    Stepping up women’s representation in military structures





    In Armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina women participation is 5,1%. According to Colonel Mersida Mešetović, one of the four female Colonels in the countries’ Armed Forces, this number would probably increase soon given the relatively short history of these Armed Forces (established in 2006).

    Although this percentage is still lower compared to other countries like Hungary (20%), USA (12%) or Croatia (8%), a positive signal is that women in our Armed Forces have all the ranks from a soldier to a brigadier, says Mešetović.

    “There are many different factors that influence a decision of women to join the Army. There are no legal obstacles and women are represented in security institutions in our country. However, we must not forget that this is not a gift to women but a result of achievements and work through their engagement. In this way, women currently serving in the Armed Forces have opened the doors to new generations of women to come

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    Jeanne d'Arc?
     
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    its ok , she was a half Serbian :mrgreen:
     
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    Yes:)

    Indeed, Milla left quite an impression in here:-D
     
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    hehe didn't expect you will know what i meant :p
     

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